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Dow Chemical Co (DOW): Today's Featured Chemicals Laggard

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Dow Chemical (
DOW) pushed the Chemicals industry lower today making it today's featured Chemicals laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day down 1.1%. By the end of trading, Dow Chemical fell 80 cents (-2.5%) to $30.84 on average volume. Throughout the day, 11.6 million shares of Dow Chemical exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 7.8 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $30.66-$31.50 after having opened the day at $31.49 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $31.64. Other companies within the Chemicals industry that declined today were:
TOR Minerals International (
TORM), down 14.1%,
REX American Resources (
REX), down 5.1%,
Rentech (
RTK), down 5.1%, and
American Vanguard Corporation (
AVD), down 4.5%.

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The Dow Chemical Company manufactures and supplies chemical products used as raw materials in the manufacture of customer products and services worldwide. Dow Chemical has a market cap of $38.78 billion and is part of the basic materials sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 46, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 0.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are two analysts that rate Dow Chemical a buy, four analysts rate it a sell, and 13 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Dow Chemical as a
buy. The company's strongest point has been its a solid financial position based on a variety of debt and liquidity measures that we have looked at. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself.